Superfeedr Blog

We wish you a wonderful 2016! May it be filled with joy, happiness and success! We’re already incredibly excited by what 2016 is promising, but more on this in the coming weeks :) For those who missed them, here are some of the important posts of 2015: Superfeedr does language...  

Brand monitoring is one of the most common applications for people using Superfeedr. Most of our customers in this field are agencies and firms who specialise in identifying influencers, conversations… etc. Too often though, companies focus on a few obvious social networks (Twitter and Facebook) when the web offers a...  

There is not a week where we are not amazed by the possibilities offered by our Tracker feeds. For example, by tracking mentions of “superfeedr” and links to superfeedr.com, we found this and this within minutes of their publications. This is an incredibly powerful API which lets you filter the...  

It finally happened, Google shutdown their feed API after 6 months of deprecation. Many many websites are now broken and yours may be too. Superfeedr is an alternative and we’d love to see you move over. TL;DR Superfeedr is not exactly like Google. Yet, what you achieved with their API...  

Every year which passes makes it more obvious that JSON is the format of choice when it comes APIs. Yet, the web is based on HTML and RSS feeds also use XML-like formats. JSON is also often how mobile or web application share data between the backend and the frontend....  

Many people, us included, see the web being a complex operating system. A consequence of this is that we embrace the Unix philosophy of small components loosely coupled using streams for data in and out. With that in mind, for subscribers, Superfeedr is mostly a piece of code which takes...  

Drupal has many strengths. You can build pretty powerful websites through very little custom code. So far though, if you’ve wanted that pretty powerful website to not be all alone in its own corner of the internet but instead be a bit more chatty with the rest of the web,...  

Superfeedr provides a powerful RSS feed API which covers the 2 most important ways to consume RSS feeds: push and pull. When consuming data from Superfeedr, you can choose between either pulling data from us or waiting for us to push you the data from the RSS feeds. The pull...  

You can only use search engines to find past documents, articles or pages which mention specific keywords. If you want to search in the future (that’s often called prospective search), you should look at our tracking feeds. They let you define search queries which are executed against each new feed...  

Timeliness and latency are among the most crucial challenges to increase engagement. If you rely on polling to aggregate content or get your content distributed, you have to increase the polling frequency to make sure the content is always fresh. But how wasteful is this? At Superfeedr, we poll feeds...